NO.29 Meme Technology
Zhang Heng shook his head and stopped talking nonsense with Julian.
At this time, he had time to observe the divine seal carefully. Zhang Heng put his hand on the huge statue, and it only felt cold. The divine seal was made of metal similar to the material, and two spirally twisted strips were intertwined with each other. One hundred and seventy degrees, forming a sculpture in the shape of a mountain, and the dense symbols on it are similar to a mixture of cuneiform and hieroglyphs, like a large-scale artwork, which is enough to shock the vision.
Divine Seal is a wireless transmitter made by a high-end civilization, and has the ability to affect the spirit and DNA of creatures. The manufacturer places it on planets that may produce civilization. If civilizations appear on these planets, one day they will be able to discover these gods. print.
At the same time, the Divine Seal is designed to be extremely easy to copy, and each fragment has complete information. The illusion of receiving energy from the Divine Seal will be considered by the species on the planet that it has unlimited energy and begin to try to replicate it. Because of this, human beings have a total of Thirteen were copied.
Divine Seals can affect the minds of living beings, and the manifestations of human beings being disturbed are: depression and other mental symptoms, and eventually cannibalism. And after death, the Divine Seal will also affect the cells to turn humans into a monster called a corpse variant. Finally, the Divine Seal will begin to aggregate and assimilate at the right time to form a blood moon, waiting for the creator's resource recovery.
This is the final inside story of a series of plots in Dead Space, and it is also the real use of the Divine Seal.
Zhang Heng recalled the information carefully, and suddenly asked a little strangely, "The divine seal is very powerful, but what is the meaning of this task arranged by Dimensional Star? Does this divine seal have other uses?"
"The Seal of God is actually a quantum computer. Creating illusions is only the initial ability. Its biggest function is to create virtual space technology. At the same time, relying on the above runes and a small amount of meme technology, it can ignore logic and disrupt the DNA of dead corpses and resurrect the dead. , and cause genetic mutation.”
At some point behind Julian, a large poster of the divine seal appeared. At the same time, she also turned into a researcher wearing black-rimmed glasses and a white lab coat. She pointed at the poster with a pointer and answered seriously.
"Quantum computer?" Zhang Heng's eyes lit up, "So the Divine Seal can actually be used by me?"
"Bingo, you're right!" Julian said with a smile: "Shenyin has artificial intelligence AI, and its IQ is about ten to fifteen years old, and its computing power is trillions of times that of the world's most advanced computer. , the level of technology has surpassed the world for hundreds of years.”
"Understood, but I still don't understand a bit." Zhang Heng nodded, "Why is the mission this time to obtain the DNA evolution code on the divine seal? Are these symbols on the divine seal more important than the divine seal itself? "
"Julian has already said that the Divine Seal also contains relatively simple meme technology, which can ignore logic and disrupt the DNA of the dead. This is the strongest function of the Divine Seal. Compared with this function, the calculation function and the hallucination function are used. Wait, it's all rubbish."
"What is meme technology? Isn't the so-called meme just the regularity of information transmission? Why did technology come up?" Zhang Heng was stunned for a moment. He was overjoyed just now after hearing the function of the Divine Seal. On the contrary, Julian did not listen carefully to the explanation behind. It was only at this moment that he realized that this so-called meme technology was actually the most valuable technology of Divine Seal.
"Memetic technology, like biotechnology, electronic technology, mechanical technology, etc., is a part of science. But the most different thing about memetic technology is anti-logic."
"Anti-logic?"
"You must know that any technology has logic, such as biotechnology, using biotechnology to create a clone, resulting in two identical people in the world, is there no logic in this kind of thing? No, this is science What can be done is logical." You Li'an explained it carefully, and at the same time, a burst of urgent BGM background music also came from Zhang Heng's brain.
"And meme technology is illogical. You don't know why this string of characters can change the DNA of a dead body, but you just know that it can do it. This is meme technology."
"But how do ancient humans know that biotechnology can create clones? If it is divided in this way, wouldn't biotechnology also become meme technology for ancient humans?" Zhang Heng asked.
"How is that possible?" Julian waved his mini hand and took a deep breath, "Then let's put it another way, do you know about genes?" Without waiting for Zhang Heng to nod, he said again, "Memes are similar to genes. , are spread through copying, imitation, memes are like a kind of information that can be spread through various media, and other technologies cannot do this.”
Seeing Zhang Heng still looking a little confused, Julian couldn't help sighing on his chubby face, "Then let's use an analogy."
"Once upon a certain destroyed human plane, a sculpture was excavated by archaeology before the destruction. This is a slightly abstract sculpture, no one can say what era it was carved, and the construction time is unknown, and the purpose is unknown. The author is unknown."
"It didn't attract people's attention at first, but after the archaeological team swallowed the sculptures, the people in the archaeological team began to discuss the topic of sculpture, whether it was conscious or unintentional, to discuss the role of sculpture and how to fill it with sculpture. Artistic beauty."
"But as time went on, the minds of these people seemed to be bewitched by the sculpture, and everyone tried to describe the shape of the sculpture to others like crazy. And the person who listened to the description, as long as it was Hearing the appearance of this sculpture, or even just hearing data such as size, will also be affected by the sculpture, and continue to describe this sculpture to others involuntarily. In the end, the entire plane is in such a situation destroyed."
Zhang Heng was stunned, "Is there such a thing? Is this a mental virus? It's like a computer virus, which keeps infecting other computers, and finally finishes playing together?"
"If there is a transmission material and a transmission medium, it can be regarded as a mental virus. The virus must be transmitted by the virus itself, air, blood and other transmission media. But what about the statue? There is nothing, There is no source of communication, let alone a medium of communication, and there is absolutely no scientific logic." Julian smirked, "Uncle, do you understand?"
Zhang Heng couldn't help but fell into deep contemplation, is this a meme? It's not that he doesn't believe it, but that the meme's explanation has gone beyond scientific principles and has reached the level of idealism.
"Of course, in fact, memes are not necessarily capable of changing human DNA, destroying the world, etc." Julian continued, "It's as if the weapon itself has no good or evil, the key is who uses it. Your world has begun to emerge. The concept of 'memes' is already in its infancy, but it's still in its earliest stages, and I haven't really understood the power of memes, and it will take at least five hundred years to use memes."
"So, is there a solution to the meme attack?" Zhang Heng's expression became extremely solemn. If this attack method really exists, then what are the so-called bacterial viruses, or even nuclear weapons, in the face of meme weapons? There is no comparison.
No bloodshed, no killing, just a piece of information that can destroy human civilization, this is simply... God's means!
"There must be a solution to memes." Julian replied affirmatively, "that is, it can be easily solved by using counter-effect memes. For example, the statue, if someone in that plane develops another meme, Just enough to make everyone forget the data about that statue, so is this phenomenon resolved soon?"
"That is to say, only memes can deal with memes?" Zhang Heng smiled bitterly, doesn't that mean you didn't say anything.
"No, memes are not invincible. No matter how defiant memes are, they are still a kind of science. There is philosophy on top of science. For example, the causality of philosophical classification, the use of causal weapons can even 'reverse' and 'modify'. And 'delete', directly 'delete' the existence of your meme, the meme in front of it is as ridiculous as playing a family."
"Memes are also classified. In terms of functional application, they are divided into 'memes with solutions' and 'memes without solutions'. Some memes will fail after being activated once, and some memes have limitations on the things they affect. , Some memes can't even affect humans at all. These are called solvable memes. And memes are also divided into 'single memes', 'multiple memes' and 'phenomenal memes', etc. , a single meme is non-communicable and can only affect a single substance, and a phenomenon-level meme is very powerful, and theoretically, the spread of a phenomenon-level meme is infinite."
A lot of knowledge that Zhang Heng had never heard of poured out of Julian's mouth like a bean, Zhang Heng was completely stunned, and in the end he could only wave his hands continuously, "Okay, okay, I'll talk about this later, I want to ask now. Ask if I can change the program of the seal? At least let the seal work for me."
"Of course, the Dimensional Star research system is to assist the host in carrying out scientific research tasks, and there is no difficulty in transforming a technological creation such as the Divine Seal."
"Then what should I do?" Zhang Heng was overjoyed after hearing Julian's affirmative words.
"With the current level of technology on the host plane, it is only possible to customize special instruments, and the required tools are..." After speaking, a large section of technical data was directly input into Zhang Heng's brain through Dimensional Star. In an instant, Zhang Heng will understand.
So many materials are needed, and a supercomputer is needed to act as an information converter for the divine seal?
Zhang Heng was stunned.
At this moment, the phone placed in front of the computer desk suddenly rang. Zhang Heng had to temporarily stop the conversation with Julian. When he opened it, it turned out to be Li Jianguo, and it was definitely not the first time. There are more than a dozen missed calls from Li Jianguo.
So many missed calls are like a reminder, and I don't know what it is for.
In desperation, Zhang Heng had to answer the phone.
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